Chapter 2 – Getting Started.
Heero had just finished doing up Duo's braid and put the elastic in when the doorbell rang. "I'll get it." Duo said, getting up and running over. "You get the towels, sunscreen, drinks and stuff."
"And who was your servant last
year?" Heero called from the linen closet.
"Why you, of course!" Duo reminded
him with a grin.
Heero grumbled and gathered the
necessary beach things. Opening the
door, Duo took one look and tried VERY hard not to laugh. Dressed in an opened green, blue and yellow
Hawaiian-style T-shirt with gray-blue designer shorts and sandals, Quatre
RaberbaWinner hadn't changed one bit. Hearing a noise behind him, Duo turned and smirked at Heero, dressed in
a sexy black muscle-shirt, cut-off light blue jean shorts and hiking
boots. Duo was dressed the same except
he had on a red "fitted" T-shirt.
"Hey, Heero!" Quatre said, surprised. "You're coming after all?"
Heero allowed himself a slight
grin. "Let's just say I REALLY got to
get away for the day."
Duo chuckled as he locked the door
and headed for the white mini-van parked in the driveway. "Ooooh yeah!"
Getting into the van, Duo took one
look at the driver, who was wearing an opened reddish-orange shirt, blue biker
shorts, sandals and a blue tie-back in his long jet-black hair, and
fake-screamed. "Ahhhhhhhh! Wufei's driving!"
"Sit down and shut your trap,
Maxwell." Wufei ordered, but he grinned
teasingly.
Heero had climbed into the back seat
of the van. As Duo started to sit in
the middle seat next to Trowa, who was clad in a short sleeved blue polo shirt
and jean shorts with canvas shoes, the pilot folded his arms, blocked the seat
with his legs and said, "My seat. If you're
gonna nap, and you always do on long trips, you're not napping next to me."
"Fine then." Duo shrugged and
climbed in next to Heero. "Have the
whole seat to yourself, greedy."
Trowa sighed. He didn't mean to sound stingy, but if Heero
sat next to him, he never knew but that the gundam pilot might snap out of his
sleep and point a gun in his seatmate's face. On the other hand, if you sat next to Duo while he was sleeping, you ran
the risk that he may think you were Heero, and well, that was pretty much
self-explanatory. Thinking up a quick
excuse, he said, "Sorry Duo, I get claustrophobic after driving for long
periods of time and I need as much space as I can get."
Duo chuckled. "Yeah sure. You're afraid of what I may do to you while I'm sleeping." As Trowa started to blush, Duo continued. "You see, I know you Trowa. I can read your mind!" He grinned as he heard Quatre and Wufei stifling giggles from the front of the van and he glanced sideways to see Heero smirking. He lay his head next to Heero's shoulder and closed his eyes, saying, "Well, night-night again fellas. Wake me up when we get there." As the motion of the van lulled him back to sleep.